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by cosmie 8y ago
> Occasionally a big enough entity will mandate "everyone will use our data xfer spec" (and it's typically some gnarly XML-infested SOAPy animal). In which case, you leave your CSV-over-scp or CSV-over-FTP in place, and du
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by cosmie 8y ago
> We barely had the resources - sapient or monetary - to sell our own product; trying to sell other people's products upon which ours depended was doomed to fail. Just to know, this isn't a particularly uncommon problem. I spen
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by cosmie 8y ago
And those are just the ones that make it explicit. It's also pretty easy to mask usage of GA via a reverse proxy[1], or indirectly use GA via services such as Segment[2]. While both do create a degree of separation between your device
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by cosmie 8y ago
Open the FB Redirect page in an Incognito/Private browsing session to deal with that. Note that the FB page itself needs to be in the private browsing session, that way the referral data gets passed when you click on the WSJ link.
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by cosmie 8y ago
I hadn't heard of this issue specifically, but it sounds like you may be talking about eBay Enterprise[1]. They ran a lot of e-commerce operations for brick and mortar stores at one point, including both Toys R Us and Dick's Sport
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by cosmie 8y ago
+1 for the adaptive cruise control in fast but varying speed traffic. The variant that my Hyundai has is also really pleasant for stop-and-go traffic, too. As the space shrinks below the minimal set, it'll basically progressively slow
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by cosmie 8y ago
This. There was a paper published recently[1], and a writeup in Nature[2] about it, which tested 60 different suppliers of graphene and found virtually all of them were junk and didn't match the ISO definition of graphene (i.e. 10 or f
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by cosmie 8y ago
> From time to time I've run an analysis on the use of alternative image formats on the web and it never comes out to be worth it. I just checked the Google homepage, and even the New Year's Eve Google Doodle currently being sh
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by cosmie 8y ago
Intermittent/Variable ratio reinforcement[1]. I use a form of it in my house, to good effect. Consistent positive behavior (with schoolwork, chores, etc) gets intermittently rewarded. Negative behavior resets any potential reward. But
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by cosmie 8y ago
I do a lot of work where I rapidly mature business functions/processes, generally related to analytics and data work. I basically fill a self-supporting business role, while handling the technical needs until the processes fully mature
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by cosmie 8y ago
> and the biggest gap in AWS cloud product lineup AWS has a similar product, QuickSight[1]. It's not my favorite to use, but integrates with the AWS ecosystem as easily as Data Studio integrates with the Google ecosystem. [1] https
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by cosmie 8y ago
> Google Analytics does the heavy lift by removing incoherent , corrupted or malicious data insertion. > Let’s say I use Puppeteer i can scrap this page a million time with completely wrong headers like « Netscape 8.1 ». GA purify th
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by cosmie 8y ago
> Google Analytics is much faster, responds in a few hundreads milliseconds. Are you referring to their reporting API, or their collection endpoint? The collection endpoint is certainly fast to respond, but the actual reporting API can b
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by cosmie 8y ago
Snowplow[1] is an alternative to this. While they have a managed solution, their backend is open source and can be self-hosted. And they have a forked version of the Piwik client side library designed ot work with Snowplow[2]. Snowplow is a
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by cosmie 8y ago
In essence they're urgent care clinics that follow the regulations of an emergency department, and therefore are able to bill as one. The core components that I'm aware of: - An urgent care clinic can be staffed with just a nurse
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by cosmie 8y ago
Something like Cloudflare Access[1] maybe? Their basic plan is free for up to 5 seats/login accounts. [1] https://www.cloudflare.com/products/cloudflare-access/
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by cosmie 8y ago
Is there a reason you need one VM per customer, and can't use a single Data Gateway to manage multiple data connections? On that note, you don't have to use the official data gateway application. It certainly has a lot of ancill
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by cosmie 8y ago
While I can't speak to what traditional methods are for this type of analysis, I do have some tangentially related experience. I used to work in supply chain at a massive consumer goods company, and was part of the user rollout for sof
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by cosmie 8y ago
> 2) either a vm running windows server or create a db on azure to update manually because powerbi doesn't allow aws databases I believe this is a misunderstanding. You can totally connect to AWS databases with PowerBI, assuming you
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by cosmie 8y ago
Thanks for stating that directly! Re-reading my comment, it didn't come off as clearly as intended. And in fact, Simo also has a guide that walks through doing precisely what you mention[1]. What I meant was that with a standard and fr
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by cosmie 8y ago
Snowplow Analytics[1] is a really great tool for web analytics, especially for companies that want to own their data or have privacy concerns. It's pretty straightforward to replicate a lot of the reporting that you can do with Googl
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Install Snowplow Analytics on the Google Cloud Platform(simoahava.com)
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by cosmie 8y ago
Your original message has a typo in it. There's an extra three in the USD value (460,4330 rather than 460,430).
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by cosmie 8y ago
> And if a sales person invites a client to a strip club, they would do so understanding that it's a questionable thing to do, Don't presume the sales person is inviting the client. I do consulting now, and periodically have to
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by cosmie 8y ago
Sounds like they're referring to an HRA account[1][2]. It's a fully employer-funded, employer-owned, and employer-controlled reimbursement account. It's similar in function to an HSA account, but it doesn't actually belo
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by cosmie 8y ago
While I agree on the mostly non-existent fraud[1] for ad views on the Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger properties direction, they actually do run a network now[2]. I can't find any information about how it handles ad views when it c
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by cosmie 8y ago
An unexpected and unexpectedly gratifying compliment. Thank you! I managed the digital analytics for that particular client, and an overly aggressive WAF[1] was in place to block scraping attempts because they'd been burned by font fee
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by cosmie 8y ago
> GDPR, here we come! I wish I had that card to play! For that specific provider in the example, their ToS explicitly says that, other than your login credentials, they're allowed to do and distribute any and everything they want wi
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by cosmie 8y ago
Shareholder value[1], not shareholder profit. There's a subtle but important difference. It's pretty easy to engineer short term profits, but usually results in cannibalizing long-term value. The amassed engineering talent and acc
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by cosmie 8y ago
This year I happen to work for a client that licenses all of their brand fonts. Licensed and pay-per-use fonts have easily and quickly worked their way up to the top 5 most agitating things to work with. - They track use by embedding a link

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